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The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS
Chapter 771
ACTIONS FOR ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS, CRIMINAL CONVERSATION, SEDUCTION, OR BREACH OF CONTRACT TO MARRY
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F.S. 771.01
771.01 Certain tort actions abolished.The rights of action heretofore existing to recover sums of money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction or breach of contract to marry are hereby abolished.
History.s. 1, ch. 23138, 1945.

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Cases Citing Statute 771.01

Total Results: 15

Chubb Indemnity Insurance Co. v. Stoyanovich

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2013-08-14

Citation: 121 So. 3d 607, 2013 WL 4081021, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 12651

Snippet: misread Gill, which expressly stated that section 771.01, Florida Statutes, “only bars actions for damages

Davis v. Hilton

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 2001-03-07

Citation: 780 So. 2d 974, 2001 Fla. App. LEXIS 2465, 2001 WL 219110

Snippet: distress. • The clear language of Florida Statutes § 771.01 abolishes the claim of alienation of affections

Stone v. Wall

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1999-06-17

Citation: 734 So. 2d 1038, 1999 WL 424384

Snippet: of actions for alienation of affections, see § 771.01, Fla. Stat. (1997); Prosser, supra § 124, at 930

Hoffman v. Boyd

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1997-08-20

Citation: 698 So. 2d 346, 1997 WL 471845

Snippet: within the legislative prohibition of sections 771.01 and 771.04, Florida Statutes (1995). These sections

Sanchez v. Great Western Bank

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1996-06-19

Citation: 675 So. 2d 250, 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 6526, 1996 WL 334296

Snippet: PER CURIAM. Affirmed. §§ 771.01, 771.08, Fla. Stat. (1995).

Schiller v. Miller

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1993-05-26

Citation: 621 So. 2d 481, 1993 WL 174889

Snippet: that the Florida "Heart Balm" statute, now section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1991), does not preclude an

Duttenhofer v. Duttenhofer

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1985-06-04

Citation: 474 So. 2d 251, 10 Fla. L. Weekly 1374

Snippet: Mims, 305 So.2d 787 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974) (Section 771.01, et seq., Florida Statutes, bars cause of action

Harrington ex rel. Harrington v. Pages

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1983-11-16

Citation: 440 So. 2d 521, 1983 Fla. App. LEXIS 24113

Snippet: been expressly barred by Section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1981): 771.01 Certain tort actions abolished

HARRINGTON EX REL. HARRINGTON v. Pages

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1983-11-16

Citation: 440 So. 2d 521

Snippet: been expressly barred by Section 771.01, Florida Statutes (1981): 771.01 Certain tort actions abolished

Gill v. Shively

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1975-10-17

Citation: 320 So. 2d 415

Snippet: held their "Heart Balm" statutes, similar to § 771.01, F.S. 1973, preclude actions of any type arising

Mims v. Mims

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1974-10-31

Citation: 305 So. 2d 787

Snippet: public policy to this effect was expressed in F.S. § 771.01 et seq., which outlawed damage claims for alienation

De La Portilla v. De La Portilla

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida | Date Filed: 1973-11-27

Citation: 287 So. 2d 345

Snippet: affections and as such is prohibited by F.S. § 771.01 F.S.A. et seq., which abolishes *347 actions for

McCaughan v. Gay

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1959-07-03

Citation: 114 So. 2d 170, 1959 Fla. LEXIS 1591

Snippet: the case of Gay v. McCaughan, Fla.1958, 105 So.2d 771.1 Finding as we do that the decree so entered fully

Liappas v. Augoustis

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1950-07-18

Citation: 47 So. 2d 582, 1950 Fla. LEXIS 1046

Snippet: theretofore actionable, enumerated in said Act. Section 771.01 of the Act provides that "The rights of action

State v. Lee

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1949-07-19

Citation: 41 So. 2d 662, 1949 Fla. LEXIS 820

Snippet: 2, pages 449-450, states the rule viz.: "Sec. 771. 1. Wild Animals. — From the doctrine of value, it